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THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES"The History and Future of the
Integrated Circuit"Prof. Thomas Lee
Stanford UniversityGerontology Auditorium (GER-124)Thursday, November 17, 20052:00-3:00p.m.[A reception will follow at 3:00p.m.]Abstract:Moore's law is rapidly approaching the half-century mark, and many wonder how much longer it can work its magic. This talk doesn't presume an answer to that question, but instead looks at the history of the semiconductor age to suggest possible futures. There will be a focus on the much-underappreciated role of chance in creating semiconductor technology. Relatively few engineers are aware that diodes were a 19th-century discovery, and that the PN junction and even doping were discoveries, the latter aided by a pair of sensitive noses. The path to the future will likely require similar fortuitous discoveries, aided by Pasteur's famous "prepared minds.Bio:Thomas H. Lee received the S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively. He joined Analog Devices in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, CA where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS. He has twice received the "Best Paper" award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a "Best Student Paper" at ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation Fellowship recipient. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Societies. He holds 35 U.S. patents and authored The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (now in its second edition), and Planar Microwave Engineering, both with Cambridge University Press. He is a co-author of four additional books on RF circuit design, and also cofounded Matrix Semiconductor.Host: Prof. John Choma, x04692

Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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